Example sentences of "took [adv prt] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where others might have been satisfied just to become editor of The Times , he took on one public job after another . |
| 2 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 3 | It is perhaps not totally coincidental that there are three million unemployed and three million companies and er You could do the arithmetic about what would happen if every company took on one person . |
| 4 | Finally they took on one opponent too many , receiving a resounding defeat at the hands of the Mamluks at Ain Jallud in 1260 . |
| 5 | For their part Fleischmann and Pons took along one of their palladium cells ( but one that never produced heat — their heat producers were at that moment fully occupied in gathering data ) . |
| 6 | That was the message from the cyclists who took over one of Oxford 's busiest rouundabouts at the the height of rush hour . |
| 7 | That was the message from the cyclists who took over one of Oxford 's busiest rouundabouts at the the height of rush hour . |
| 8 | With appointed ‘ judges ’ and a news reporter on the ground at the Flying Field , Dick and I took off one Saturday morning with petrol tank full , and spiralled up into ‘ the great blue yonder ’ . |
| 9 | Next she took off one of her two petticoats which had tucks and embroidery round the hem , and this she cut to cover it and make a frill round the edge . |
| 10 | He took off one Friday , disappeared . |
| 11 | He was in hospital in Holland and simply took off one night . |
| 12 | The master took up one of them , twirling it round his finger , and the diamonds darted shafts of light . |
| 13 | The makers of sanitary towels have promoted their wares in a number of ingenious ways over the years , but few have shown the same initiative as that of Southall Brothers and Barclay of Birmingham who , in July 1888 , took up one third of the back cover of The Antiquary with an advertisement . |
| 14 | the Clubhouse , from where diners could watch the sport , took up one whole floor of the grandstand , glassed in along its whole length to preserve summer indoors . |
| 15 | Bergson turned from the bank of screens that took up one whole wall of the long room and got up from his chair . |
| 16 | Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years . |
| 17 | It still had many of the characteristics of a lounge — cluttered bookshelves took up one wall of the room . |
| 18 | He put out his hands almost against his will , took up one of the mallets and swung it testingly to get the feel of its balance , picked up a punch at random and applied its point , none too deftly because his hands were tremulous , to a half-defined fold of drapery in the nearest block of stone . |
| 19 | She took out one marked ‘ Lupin ’ . |
| 20 | After a while , he took out one of his father 's old police notebooks and started to draw aeroplanes . |
| 21 | Nothing on the radio attracted him so , as a measure against boredom he took out one of the hard mints he always carries and , being a far from self-indulgent character he broke the mint sharply in half intending to eat it slowly . |
| 22 | Her mother took a folder from the drawer of the dresser and Terry took out one of the photographs . |
| 23 | She took out one of the pounds and gave it to her daughter . |
| 24 | Think Ed took out one club too many there did n't he ? |
| 25 | And she took out one of the society 's cards . |
| 26 | Muirhead had Cannon on the ropes at the tenth and looked like getting the 3 needed to force an extra end but , with the last stone , took out one of her own . |
| 27 | If they took out one of these drawers and have a lockable cupboard I 'd have it no questions . |